Category: Healthcare Reform
Here’s a quick guide to how the new health reform law might affect you.
Advocates say adopting health information technology could improve care and save money. But putting a realistic number on those savings is a challenge.
After three years, no real progress has been made on rising costs. The program remains well over budget, with no end in sight.
The new health law bumps Medicaid payment rates to the same level as Medicare’s. The problem? The raise may only last two years.
The Stranger joins in the debate over whether Attorney General Rob McKenna made the right decision to join in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health-care reform law.
NIH has received $400 million to spend on research that seeks to determine which treatments work best.
Cabinet will put in place policies needed to carry out health reform statewide and identify all opportunities for the state to receive federal funds under the new law.
Families face a gap in coverage of several months after graduation and before the law’s provision comes into effect Sept. 23rd.
The Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner explains how the new health reform law will effect you and when the changes will take effect.
Many consumers are confused about how the new health law might affect them. The KHN team examined the facts concerning some worrying claims.
New law may allow state to seek a federal subsidy worth $52 to $60 million a year to help finance the state’s cash-strapped Basic Health Plan.
Did FDA ignore warnings on CT scan radiation danger? Must insurers cover children with pre-existing illnesses? Are the lawsuits against the new health law justified or bogus?
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